{"id":15094777,"date":"2026-03-30T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/could-a-star-wars-lightsaber-work\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:52:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:52:52","slug":"could-a-star-wars-lightsaber-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/could-a-star-wars-lightsaber-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Could a\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0lightsaber work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/03\/1440_TF_lightsabers_feat.png\"><\/p>\n<div>The main problem with real-world lightsabers is that they would pass through each other. This means no intergalactic duels between Jedis and Siths.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/article\/lightsaber-star-wars-physics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/03\/1440_TF_lightsabers_feat.png\"><\/p>\n<div>The main problem with real-world lightsabers is that they would pass through each other. This means no intergalactic duels between Jedis and Siths.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15094779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15094777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15094777-1440_tf_lightsabers_feat.png",1440,810,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15094777-1440_tf_lightsabers_feat-300x169.png",300,169,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15094777-1440_tf_lightsabers_feat-620x349.png",620,349,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15094777-1440_tf_lightsabers_feat-768x432.png",768,432,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15094777-1440_tf_lightsabers_feat-940x529.png",940,529,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15094777-1440_tf_lightsabers_feat.png",1440,810,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15094777-1440_tf_lightsabers_feat.png",1440,810,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15094777-1440_tf_lightsabers_feat-998x665.png",998,665,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15094777-1440_tf_lightsabers_feat-670x446.png",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15094777-1440_tf_lightsabers_feat-1340x810.png",1340,810,true],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15094777-1440_tf_lightsabers_feat-510x510.png",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15094777-1440_tf_lightsabers_feat-160x160.png",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15094777-1440_tf_lightsabers_feat.png",24,14,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15094777-1440_tf_lightsabers_feat.png",48,27,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15094777-1440_tf_lightsabers_feat.png",96,54,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15094777-1440_tf_lightsabers_feat.png",150,84,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15094777-1440_tf_lightsabers_feat.png",300,169,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"atombo","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/science\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Science<\/a>","tag_info":"Science","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15094777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15094778,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094777\/revisions\/15094778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15094779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15094777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15094777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15094777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}